[acb-hsp] FW: A Blessing For Longing

[Baracco, Andrew W]

It came from the current issue of Denise Bissonnette's True Livelihood
Newsletter.  She has a few other poems there, including one from henry
David Thoreau.

 

Andy

 

 

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I love this!!

Rhonda

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	From: Baracco, Andrew W <mailto:Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>  

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	Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:16 PM

	Subject: [acb-hsp] FW: A Blessing For Longing

	 

	I came across this, and thought it was so beautiful and powerful
that I thought I would share it with you.

	 

	Andy

	 

	Blessed be the longing that brought you here 

	And quickens your soul with wonder.

	May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire

	That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe. 

	May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease

	To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.

	May the forms of your belonging - in love, creativity and
friendship-

	Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your spirit.

	 May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your
desire.

	 May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your
feeling.

	 May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness 

	With which your body inhabits the world.

	 May your heart never be haunted by ghost structures of old
damage.

	 May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.

	 May you know the urgency which with the world longs for you and
awaits your gift.

	  

	- Excerpt from "To Bless the Space Between Us", Doubleday,
Copyright 2008, John O'Donohue

	
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